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		By: Warren Throckmorton		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99279</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Warren Throckmorton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2019 00:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99278&quot;&gt;Doctorbob F&lt;/a&gt;.

Correct, although I don&#039;t believe Obama lied on a daily basis. I do think Trump does.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99278">Doctorbob F</a>.</p>
<p>Correct, although I don&#8217;t believe Obama lied on a daily basis. I do think Trump does.</p>
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		By: Doctorbob F		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doctorbob F]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 23:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99279&quot;&gt;Warren Throckmorton&lt;/a&gt;.

It would appear that you may have a bias, to believe such a thing about Trump.
Now Obama may not have lied daily but on a weekly basis he was dead set on undermining the Constitution and snubbed his nose at anyone who objected. He was a law unto himself.
As to the original topic; Let&#039;s say that you had the deciding vote as to whether or not a group of 100 innocent children should be brutally murdered or a second group of 1,000 innocent children should be brutally murdered. Would you refuse to vote because you believe that no children should be murdered and leave the decision to their captors?
If the group of 1000 were killed, you would have the blood of 900 children on your hands.
Likewise, in an imperfect society, if you spend your vote on something which makes no appreciable change and prevents no evil but rather allows for greater evil, your opportunity to lessen the influence of evil in our society has been squandered.
The moral decision or vote would be for the lesser of two evils.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99279">Warren Throckmorton</a>.</p>
<p>It would appear that you may have a bias, to believe such a thing about Trump.<br />
Now Obama may not have lied daily but on a weekly basis he was dead set on undermining the Constitution and snubbed his nose at anyone who objected. He was a law unto himself.<br />
As to the original topic; Let&#8217;s say that you had the deciding vote as to whether or not a group of 100 innocent children should be brutally murdered or a second group of 1,000 innocent children should be brutally murdered. Would you refuse to vote because you believe that no children should be murdered and leave the decision to their captors?<br />
If the group of 1000 were killed, you would have the blood of 900 children on your hands.<br />
Likewise, in an imperfect society, if you spend your vote on something which makes no appreciable change and prevents no evil but rather allows for greater evil, your opportunity to lessen the influence of evil in our society has been squandered.<br />
The moral decision or vote would be for the lesser of two evils.</p>
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		By: Doctorbob F		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99278</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doctorbob F]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99238&quot;&gt;Warren Throckmorton&lt;/a&gt;.

Ah, then I assume you did not vote for either Obama or Hillary.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99238">Warren Throckmorton</a>.</p>
<p>Ah, then I assume you did not vote for either Obama or Hillary.</p>
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		By: Warren Throckmorton		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Warren Throckmorton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99237&quot;&gt;Doctorbob F&lt;/a&gt;.

Ah, true. 

Disagree or not, I think my points remain true as well. I refuse to vote for a person who lies to the American people on a nearly daily basis. There are many more reasons but I am pretty sure we will never agree.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99237">Doctorbob F</a>.</p>
<p>Ah, true. </p>
<p>Disagree or not, I think my points remain true as well. I refuse to vote for a person who lies to the American people on a nearly daily basis. There are many more reasons but I am pretty sure we will never agree.</p>
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		By: Doctorbob F		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doctorbob F]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99235&quot;&gt;Warren Throckmorton&lt;/a&gt;.

Not late for 2020 and every other upcoming election. Some ideas are timeless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2016/08/24/whats-wrong-with-a-protest-vote/#comment-99235">Warren Throckmorton</a>.</p>
<p>Not late for 2020 and every other upcoming election. Some ideas are timeless.</p>
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